Word: riverae
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...Spain. The country has been ruined by politicians, and we hope to put it back in the grand place Spain occupied in the past. I took a desperate chance, but life and country were at stake." These were the words of Marquis de Estella, Lieutenant General Bon Miguel Primo Rivera, Captain General f of Catalonia, Spanish Mussolini...
Revolution. A revolution in Spain had been expected for months, yet when it came it had the appearance of rising like a wind in the night. Originating in Barcelona, under the leadership of the redoubtable General Primo Rivera, the revolution is an almost exact analogy to the Fascist revolution of last year in Italy, which started in Milan; both these places are chief industrial centers, where the doctrines of socialism and communism were most securely rooted. It appears that all good Spaniards went to bed one night only to awaken next morning to find that a revolution had taken place...
...Satander on the Bay of Biscay, where he had just won two races with his yacht Giralda IV in the annual Royal Regatta), to obtain power to put down the revolution. The Ministry then resigned, and the King recognized the revolution by royal decree, appointing General Don Miguel Primo Rivera virtual Dictator?" President of the National Directorate...
Directorate. General Primo Rivera as President constituted the National Directorate as follows: Generals Adolfo Espasno, Luis Navarro, Luis Hermoso, Dalmacio Rodriguez, Antonio Mayenda, Gomez Jordana, Ruiz Portal, Mario Muslera, Admiral Marquis Mavoz...
...upon the average man as at present. At the end of a war fought to "make the world safe for democracy", Europe is tottering between the dictatorship of the proletariat in the person of Lenin and the dictatorship of the strong man in the persons of Mussolini and Primo Rivera, while German democracy steers a narrow course, apparently doomed to failure, between the Scylla of hungry reds and the Charybdis of angry nationalists. Meanwhile on the Turkish question and to a lesser extent in the problem of the Ruhr, France and England have become so callous to changing positions, that...